“Hurry, hurry, hurry. Step it on up. Gather round, one and all. Young and old, small and tall. Just when you thought there was nothing left to believe in. Just when you were sure there wasn’t nothing left to disbelieve in . . .” — fromHoudini’s Heirs

Marc’s background includes children’s theatre, cattle chores, and a season with a one-ring circus.He’s also a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and NYU Film School, and currently serves on the MFA faculty of Chatham University, where he’s fiction editor of The Fourth River.

His writings span fiction, creative nonfiction, and screenwriting.His prose has earned two Pushcart Prize nominations, the Literal Latte Fiction Award, and a Raymond Carver Short Story Award.